[R-390] EMail List Forum stay at QTH.net or move to Groups.io

[jsternmd at att.net]

Hi Larry,

Migrating the old archive to Groups.IO is not feasible as I understand.  The
Collins Collector Group Reflector list made this migration and have not been
able to transfer their old Reflector archive which appears quite similar to
the qth.net mail list format.  I can concatenate all the monthly R-390
archives into 1 large text file.  There are many free logical text search
tools available but not sure if they would remain "free" for use on a public
website.  Also bear in mind that the archives contain lots of content that
have little historical value.  Searching would still take some time, for
example if I wanted to find a thread on PTO restoration, it would take a
modest effort to find a relevant 'hit' and then to copy the subject title
and do a secondary search on that specific thread title.  It's a bit clunky
but when you need to find valuable old advice it can work well.   I did this
with the old collections (pre-digital print) of the Collins Signal, where I
used OCR and then put them all into a large single file.  I use Copernic, a
personal free search tool then to find relevant subject matter.  I also
started doing this with the old 73 Magazine issues where I used Adobe
Acrobat to perform OCR to render searchable text.  Where there's will
there's a way.

Jerry NY2KW

-----Original Message-----
From: r-390-bounces at mailman.qth.net <r-390-bounces at mailman.qth.net> On
Behalf Of Larry H
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2022 4:19 AM
To: R-390 Forum <r-390 at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: [R-390] EMail List Forum stay at QTH.net or move to Groups.io

Jerry,  Thank you very much for bringing Groups.IO to our attention.  I read
about it a little and played around with it and the search facility a
little, also.  The search facility is quite good and fast.  The default
search box that is displayed most of the time in the upper right accepts
boolean operators and the default for entering more than one word is AND.
And, it searches the title and text of the entries by default, so is very
comprehensive.  The search by author is not real clean but can be done.

I can't spend any more time on it right now, but do have some questions for
clarification.  It sounds like the existing list archive cannot be migrated
forward to the Groups.IO environment.  Is that true?  If not, can the file
you are suggesting to make go back to our current archive beginning around
1998, instead of 2002?  Could I install it and a search tool on our r-390a
website?  Would this be the right thing to do?

Thanks you.

Regards, Larry

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On Mon, Nov 7, 2022 at 1:47 PM <k1jos at att.net> wrote:

> Hello R-390 Groupmates,
>
> Several years ago, Don W5OR (SK) asked me to share administrator 
> responsibilities with him to manage the R390 mail list server ( 
> http://mailman.qthnet/mailman/listinfo/r-390).
>
> This mailing list is an essential complement to the www.R-390a.net < 
> http://www.R-390a.net>  website that Larry took responsibility since
> Al WA0HQQ (SK) passed.   While the R-390 mail list has over 20 years
> of archived messages, the archives are not user-friendly searchable.
>
> I would like to hear feedback from you whether the list should move to 
> a more feature-packed mailing list such as Groups.io?  Groups.io 
> allows fille/picture attachments and keyword logic searches on 
> archived messages. The annual cost would be about $350 which I am 
> willing to take on while hoping that some of you will contribute a few 
> $/year to help defray the cost.
>
> Regardless of whether we stay with the current list server or move in 
> 2023, I am working on compiling a single email archive file, 
> structured by thread titles for 2002-2022, that can be easily searched by
keyword logic.
> I believe I can then broadcast it to all subscribers to download for 
> their home use.
>
> Looking forward to hearing your opinions,
>
> Best regards,
>


> Jerry NY2KW (ex-K1JOS)
>
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